Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Kogi State chapter, has described as extremely barbaric, unprogressive and callous,recent threat of violence allegedly issued by the Governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, to the effect that violence would be visited on the opposition in the state in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

The party in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Communications, Comrade Onibiyo Dayo, however, said Kogi people have risen above the frustration of Bello as a failed APC Governor.

Dayo said that Kogi PDP’s attention has been drawn to the unfortunate low, Bello has condescended to, “with his needless threats, anger and provoking arrogant talks in Ihima, Kogi State on Sunday the 4th of September, 2023,” while addressing Ihima people as well as visitors at the Technical College, Ihima.”

Dayo said that rather than eploit the opportunity to publicise achievements of his administration in the past six years, he found it convenient to issue threat to the opposition.

According to the Kogi PDP Media and Communications Director, the 2023 elections would be hot, and that he would be leading with “fierce fire” in his hands.

Dayo further quoted Bello as promising at Ihima, that he “would go after people for disobeying his calls,” a comment he said the opposition found “extremely barbaric, unprogressive and callous.”

“While other Governors are busy, encouraging their own people in the face of the pains APC has brought on Nigerians since 2015, the Kogi governor was busy issuing threats.

The PDP quoted Yahaya Bello as also, saying amongst other things, “if I cannot do it so that we win all our positions, 100 percent when the time comes, when we shall handover to the person we like to continue then, that is failure and am not a failure.”

But the PDP reminded Bello that the real failure is in his non-performance as a Governor, his being synonymous with violence and his act of instigating another round of violence against the people he governs ahead of 2023.

“We are worried as a people, one with civility, that any person, how much more a Governor of a state, can say, ‘he will make anyone who is against him to go and lay with his mother (Yahaya Bello’s mother), in the grave and be running errands for her’, in a country like Nigeria with law and in the calibre of someone who should lead by example.”

PDP went ahead to assure “the failed Governor and the APC, that the great people of Kogi State are done with them, one of the signals they saw two years ago and got jittering and scared of the PDP and the good people of Kogi State, thereby making them not to conduct LG election but resorted to allocating figures which, up till now, they have not been able to make available to the public.”

PDP, Dayo said, has urged Kogi voters not to relent in their resolve to use their PVCs to send the ill-fated APC packing from Kogi State.

The party has therefore, enjoined security agencies, international communities and other legal and democratic institutions to hold Governor Bello responsible for heating the system and subsequently, hold him responsible in event of carrying out his threats, “which is not good for our democracy and a pure dangerous sign to us as a country in this trying times.”

The statement added: “In the same vein, the PDP is calling on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari, not to offer protection to any violent person.

“The video that is going round is nothing but a disgrace to humanity in the 21st Century and should be rejected by all and sundry.”